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Borrowing (without attribution) an analogy used by the prosecutor in his closing argument, Holmes invoked the following argument-stopper: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic".
Bush's account is littered with anecdotes seemingly ripped off from other books and articles, even borrowing without attribution – some might say plagiarising – from critical accounts the White House had previously denounced as inaccurate.
Even as the law may license creation of an architectural object reflecting core design aspects found in another object created by a different architect, we may find morally blameworthy any cognizant "borrowing" without attribution or permission.
His run for the 1988 Democratic Presidential nomination came to a sudden end when he was accused of borrowing, without attribution, from a television commercial by the former British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.
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I, in fact, borrowed (without attribution, I'm afraid to say) from this recipe before I reprinted it as below.
It's one thing if you're writing a history of the Kennedys, like Doris Kearns Goodwin, and borrow, without attribution, from another history of the Kennedys.
Parsons: Don't borrow without attribution and permission.
But the first edition, published last year, was troubled by allegations of plagiarism, with the Washington Post identifying "at least a dozen passages borrowed without attribution, or footnotes, from a variety of websites".
When professional writers borrow words without attribution, they're frequently censured, sometimes fiercely.
(The line was not, it turned out, original; the chief justice borrowed it without attribution from Judge Carlos Bea, a dissenter on the appeals court in the Seattle case).
Its editor, Matthew V. Storin, had demanded that he resign for using borrowed jokes without attribution in an Aug. 2 column and offering an apparently misleading explanation.
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